Judge, 1909-08-21 · page 15 of 16
Judge — August 21, 1909 — page 15: what you’re looking at
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This page from *Judge* contains multiple brief humorous anecdotes and advertisements, rather than a single unified cartoon. The content reflects early 20th-century British and American social humor. **Main content**: Short comedic stories about class differences and social awkwardness. "All There But the Tail" depicts a motor-cyclist (a new, leisure-class activity) asking a street urchin for directions to the Zoo; the boy suggests he'd fit right in—as an animal lacking only a tail. The satire targets the pretension of the newly motorized upper classes. Other pieces mock domestic servants, railway workers, children's disobedience, and marital dynamics. "Not To Be Tolerated" satirizes a railway official rebuking a porter for damaging concrete with trunks—absurd priorities. **Context for modern readers**: These reflect a class-conscious society where motorists were novel curiosities, working-class characters spoke dialect, and humor relied heavily on hierarchy and social transgression. The magazine's audience was educated, urban, and amused by "types" rather than individuals.
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ee ALL THERE BUT THE TAIL. Dressed in the latest and most im- provi: motor-cycling costume, with gogyies all complete, the motor cyclist gayly toot-tooted his way toward the Zoo. Suddenly he slackened, dis- mounted, and said to a small, grubby urchin, my boy, am I right for the! Borren ar me Semmes, Buon P37, HUNGARY, WHY HE DIDN'T. Mamma—"Edgar, didn't 1 tell you not to take any more preserves from the jar?” | Edgar—Yes, mi Zoo ‘The boy gasped at so strange a sight and thought it must be some new animal for the gardens. u may be all right if they have a| spare ." he said doubtfully, when | he could find his tongue; ‘‘but you'd) stood better chanst if you'd only had | a tail !"'—Answers, Mamma—*Then, if you wanted some, why didn’t you ask for them?” Edgar—*"Cause 1 wanted some. Modern Society. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Never kick a live wire when it’s| down. | Poor pencils and dull boys are difficult to sharpe METHOD IN MADNESS. Mistress—For goodness sake, hurry up the dinner, Mary! Mr. Smith is so hungry he will get angr: Cook—* Wi that’s just why I'm It take retty sharp remark to cut Ala t A long yarn is sometimes produced “It ain't no use, captain ; you may bribe me, but you can’t corrupt the old ’oss ’* te eat fi. Peano Weethe? from the threads of conversation. | Londen Punch | won't eat it. carson's Weekly. If you would blind a man by throwing dust in his eyes, use gold dust. . NOvSO BE TOLERATED j When we calla man a brick, we don’t ‘ | is made of common clay, ‘“‘Here!"? shouted the railway official. mean that hi —Cassell’s Saturday Journal. |‘*What do you mean by throwing those trunks about like that?"” A SPECIALIST. ‘The porter gasped in astonishment, “Hello, mate! ‘Ow is it you ain't | and several travelers pinched themselves workin’? /to make sure that it was real. Then “Well, it's like this: I works in a. the official spoke domino factory, and I puts on the spots, | Don’t you see that you're making and they're making double blanks to-| big dents in this concrete platform?"’— day!""—London Opinion, London Tit-Bits, QUALITY PRINTS for your bungalow, den, THE ONLY WAY AN ORANGE Photos FIF college room, or club— Hand-colored all interesting subjects ONE DOLLAR .. mpi sateecc vias: depicting real men and women in moments which all have experi- enced. PRINTS OF GENUINE HUMAN INTEREST. . Juder Company TIT FOR TAT. “OTHE THIRD DEGREE” New Prints Circular The materst (who has run over a stone-break WHEN JOHN PRODUCES ; “What! "You want, £300 fora crushed foot? HIS FIANCEE Mailed for Hm not a millionaire.” — Dlate-marked Photogelatine Print a Two-cent Stamp The pessimistic stone-breaker—"*No, an’ 1 ain't no bloom ee nor pede, either."” London Sketch Pes FIFTY CENTS JUST THE SAME. A SPORTING CHANCE. District visitar—"T've just had a let-| “I'll teach you to play at ‘et from my son Arthur, saying he has | toss!’” shouted the enraged fathe is scholarship. I can’t tell you how | flog you for an hour, I will Pleased I am! | Father,’* instantly said the incor- seltattic party — ‘I can understand yer rigible, as he balanced a penny on his {clin’s, ‘mum. I felt just the same thumb and finger, “I'll toss you to make hen our pig won a medal at the agri-|it two hours or nothing."’—Cassell’s| cultural show.""—- Pearson's Weekly. |Saturday Journal, | Trade supplied by W. R, Anderson Co., 32 Union Square, New York LESLIE-JUDGE COMPANY 225 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK comicbooks.com